The coming of age of a photography project - Part IV

Showing you the evolution in my long-term project + A birthday treat

This is the fourth in the series about the making of my ongoing project 'Riverlands'.

Missed the previous parts? Here you can read part I and part II and part III.

As in the first parts, I am still searching. This is an approach I sometimes take, especially when I don't know the exact outcome yet. For other projects, I try to set an end goal in advance and work towards it. Both methods work, it just depends on how deep you have gone into your thought process.

Last time I focused on the sequences of both Ger Dekkers and the approach of 3 consecutive images like Robert Adams photographs. Lately I have been concentrating more on either finding stillness in my photographs or, on the contrary, looking for the hustle and bustle and bringing out the structures and textures in my subjects.

Normally my pictures are mostly tranquil and certainly not too packed. But it's good to get out of your comfort zone and try something different. Who knows what you might come up with. Plus, you learn from it,…